Higher Multiplicities And Almost Free Divisors And Complete Intersections

Download or read book Higher Multiplicities and Almost Free Divisors and Complete Intersections written by James Damon and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost free divisors and complete intersections form a general class of nonisolated hypersurface and completer intersection singularities. They also include discriminants of mappings, bifurcation sets, and certain types of arrangements of hyperplanes such as Coxeter arrangements and generic arrangements. Associated to the singularities of this class is a "singular Milnor fibration" which has the same homotopy properties as the Milnor fibration for isolated singularities. This memoir deduces topological properties of singularities in a number of situations including: complements of hyperplane arrangements, various nonisolated complete intersections, nonlinear arrangements of hypersurfaces, functions on discriminants, singularities defined by compositions of functions, and bifurcation sets.